Simple change saves a lot of toner
March 31, 2010 by Sam NarisiPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Solutions
Here’s one piece of advice that can help your organization cut down on toner use:
Change the default font of your e-mail system.
That’s what Diane Blohowiak, director of computing at the University of Wisconsin Green-Bay, recommends.
To save money when students print e-mails, the school announced it was changing the default font in students’ e-mails from Arial to Century Gothic.
That font uses 30% less toner than Arial, Blohowiak says.
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March 31st, 2010 at 3:37 pm
that may be true on a printer whose toner/ink cartridges do not have smart chips on them. If you have toner/ink cartridges with smart chip it doesn’t matter what kind of font you use…you’re likely leaving toner in the cartridge anyway because they count the number of pages and when you’ve hit the chip’s predetermined limit, you can’t print anymore. A very big waste in my opinion!
April 7th, 2010 at 10:45 am
To read more about the research you can find the article at the blog of printer.com.
http://blog.printer.com/2009/04/printing-costs-does-font-choice-make-a-difference/
To save money and the enviroment the best practice is:
- decrease the number of printers, move to multifunctionals. From a 2:1 printer/user ratio to 15:1 ratio.
- remove old printers, use latest Energy Star printers
- duplex default (saves 30% paper, and 1 sheet = 10 x print carbon footprint)
- move to pull or follow-me printing (saves 10-15% volume and much better information security)
Move to managed print services
Save up to 30% and improve up to 50% of carbon footprint
April 9th, 2010 at 6:01 am
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May 19th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
this is true, different fonts have different width and therefore different page coverage, i don’t think, however, that the difference can be as high as 30%.
I use PretonSaver home for my printing and it makes my printer use 50% less toner. I can configure that for every print job, but with most documents i’m happy with 50%.
the software has a free trial http://www.preton.com